Editing Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 4: The Garden (section)

=5.  Forest=
The trees here are common surface species for the area, somehow growing green and healthy deep underground.

==5A. Pagoda==
An ornamental wooden pagoda, painted in greens, blues and golds stands before a pebbled courtyard, overgrown with weeds.  In the middle of the courtyard grows a tree with twisting branches.  Mounted on the tree is a human skull, branches growing through its mouth and eye sockets.

Inside the pagoda is an octagonal wooden table and a warped old rocking chair.  On the table is a red clay mug and a white china teacup painted with tiny blue flowers (the cup is worth about $200 but is very fragile).

The Pagoda and courtyard are areas of High Sanctity for clerics of Death or the Wilderness.  Furthermore, Spells cast by a cleric of  Death or the Wilderness are cast at +4, but if cast by a cleric of a god of Good, at -4.  Spells from the Colleges of Body, Healing, Plant, Meta and Necromancy are cast at +4, while spells from the elemental collages are cast at -4.  The total bonus or penalty cannot exceed 4.  Removing the skull will eliminate the sanctity of the area but the character who does the removing will be the subject of a Curse spell, cast at level 20.

==5B. Forsaken Statue==
The marble statue of a naked woman with flowers in her hair lies on its side here, covered in weeds and with both arms broken.  Her right arm holds a snake, wrapped around her forearm.  The hand on the left arm seems to be holding fire, rising up from her palm.  Standing directly over her is a Peace Blossom Tree.

==Monster==

===Peace Blossom Tree===
Whenever the Peace Blossom Tree is struck or an animal passes within 10 feet of the limbs, it releases a white cloud of spore twenty feet in every direction.  Any creature caught in the cloud who is not holding their breath is affected as if by a Sleep spell cast at level 21.  Touching a sleeper within 20’ of the tree will automatically trigger another burst of spore.  Those sent to sleep by the Peace Blossom can be woken up, but will never wake up without help – the tree keeps them in peaceful slumber until they die and feed the soil.

The Peace Blossom Tree is covered in broad green leaves and small yellow flowers.  It has grown to 20 feet in height, with branches reaching 10 feet from the trunk.  Characters may recognize the trees for what they are before blundering into them on a successful roll against Botany, Naturalist or Survival (Forest)-4.

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